TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane, Melissa
TI  - The Birth of politics: eight greek and roman political ideas and why they matter 
SN  - 9780691173092
AV  - JC 73 .L36 2014 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE -- GREECE -- HISTORY
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Possibilities of power and purpose -- Justice -- Constitution -- Democracy -- Virtue -- Citizenship -- Cosmopolitanism -- Republic -- Sovereignty -- Conclusion: Futures of Greek and Roman pasts -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Athens map key -- Brief biographies of key persons, events and places -- Reference lists and abbreviations
N2  - "[An introduction] to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire...[Lane] focuses on eight political ideas from the Greco-Roman world that are especially influential today...and describes how the ancient formulations of these ideas often challenge widely held modern assumptions"
ER  -